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Today’s comic by Jen Sorensen is Beyond the Paleo:
• Michael Flynn is trying to sell his house to cover legal bills:
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn is selling his three-bedroom home just outside of Washington, D.C. in order to pay the legal bills associated with his guilty plea for lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials, Flynn’s brother confirmed to ABC News Monday.
The house has been on the market since December, at an asking price of $895,000, ABC News reported. The house sale isn’t the first sign that Flynn is struggling to fund his own defense. Flynn’s siblings set up a legal defense fund in September and asked the public to donate to help pay his legal bills.
• Mad Dog PAC erects billboard saying “The NRA is a terrorist organization”:
A political action committee has erected a massive billboard message in Pensacola, Florida, calling the National Rifle Association a “terrorist organization.”
The message was funded by the Mad Dog PAC, which sponsors billboards across the nation calling for President Donald Trump’s impeachment and attacking the nation’s largest gun lobby and select Republican politicians. The PAC is headed by Claude Taylor, a former staff member in Bill Clinton’s White House.
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• USS Lexington, sunk in Coral Sea battle of 1942, found in two-mile-deep water off Australia:
The USS Lexington, one of the first US aircraft carriers ever built, sunk during a heated World War II battle against the Japanese Navy. After laying 3,000 meters (about 2 miles) beneath the waves for over 75 years, researchers have discovered its final resting place.
Paul Allen, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft, and a team of deep-sea explorers found the ship’s wreckage in the Coral Sea off the eastern coast of Australia on March 4, 2018. There’s also some rather spec[tac]ular footage of the wreck, showing the aged remains of anti-aircraft guns and airplanes. It’s even possible to see a cartoon of Felix the Cat painted on the side of one of the planes.
• IRS says homeowner’s battery installation qualifies for federal renewables tax credit:
The Internal Revenue Service released a private letter ruling on Friday stating that a customer with an existing home solar array is eligible for a 30 percent federal tax credit when they buy and install a battery system, provided it stores only solar energy from their own roof.
The private letter ruling was issued to a single taxpayer; it applies only to that specific case, and the IRS says it doesn't set a precedent. Even so, it tells accountants everywhere how the agency is interpreting the tax law. [...]
"The 30 percent credit is like jumping ahead five years on the cost curve for home battery systems—so on that count, customers will be able to afford longer-duration systems sooner and present greater opportunity for self-reliance," [said Kelly Speakes-Backman, CEO of Energy Storage Association].
• Conservatives target 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act:
The ICWA mandates that when a Native American child’s parent dies, exhaustive efforts must be made to reunite the child with the surviving parent or other relatives. Children are placed with non-Native families only when an Indigenous foster home, preferably one within the child’s tribe, cannot be found.
Now, a conservative Arizona think tank, the Goldwater Institute, is pushing hard to destroy some of the main parts of The Indian Child Welfare Act. It claims that the law is “race-based,” and therefore unconstitutional, and that it deprives non-Indian people of the chance to adopt Indian children. ICWA has survived numerous such challenges over the years, but with a president who has shown little support for Native Americans, this effort might finally topple it.
On today’s Kagro in the Morning show: Well, that Nunberg meltdown happned. And more Trump petty grift. And a third "double life" white nationalist teacher was outed. (Hope no state accidentally arms one!) That former Russian spy apparently poisoned in UK was swapped for "Anna Chapman."
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